This paper analyzes the capacity of Nicaragua's dairy industry to expand domestic dairy product sales and exports profitably. The paper (a) presents information on traits of Nicaragua's dairy industry that influence domestic and export market expansion capabilities, and (b) benchmarks...

Regardless of the definition of the informal sector, there is wide spread consensus that the sector is important to the developing world. The International Lab-our Organization estimated that in 1990, 21 percent of the Sub-Saharan Africa's 227 million labour force was working in the informal...

This volume of proceedings, available as both a hard copy and a pdf file, is an edited compilation of selected contributions to the Conference on Modern Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe (MACE) 2010, held in Berlin, Germany, at the ICC on the 13th and 14th of January 2010. We would like...

The article presents the functioning of social economy in rural areas based on a case study of social cooperatives. 14 units were characterized basing on a survey, which had declared their financial condition as good. According to the research a key role in this success plays a multiple business...

Today no country in the world can hope for achieving a sustainable competitiveness of the national economic complex and, consequently, for its bright future, without its successful adaptation to the market management conditions. The article deals with the problems of a respective agrarian sector...

The aim of the article was to analyse the performance relationships between the imperfections of the market allocation connected with the agricultural sector and solutions in agricultural policy conditioned by globalization. The main areas of imperfection are described adverting to their...

Procura-se, neste artigo, destacar toda multiplicidade de interesses que emergem nas comunidades rurais da América Latina em geral, e de três países em particular (Brasil, México e Chile), para que apreender o ambiente local em que as políticas agropecuárias, particularmente as de caráter...

Analisa a experiência com a implementação do Projeto de Crédito Fundiário e Combate à Pobreza Rural (PCF), tomando, como estudo de caso, o Projeto de Assentamento Bom Conselho, no município de Macaíba, estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Resume as principais contribuições teóricas sobre o...

O principal objetivo deste trabalho é o de verificar a importância da política de crédito agrícola, especialmente os créditos de investimento e de custeio, bem como da educação para o produto per capita rural. Juntamente verificamos de forma indireta duas variáveis estruturais...

The main ambition of this paper is to analyse agricultural developments in selected new EU member states with particular emphasis on government expenditures in agriculture. The main objective is to identify the relationship between government expenditures development on one side, and agrarian...